Curtain and shade supporting bracket



Feb. '2 1926. 1,571,760

v s. .1. DICK CURTAIN AND SHADE SUPPORTING BRACKET Filed Sept. 15. 1924 Patented Feb. 2, 1926.

UNITED STATES SEWARD'J. DICK, or CLYMER, PENNSYLVANIA.

CURTAIN .AND SHADE SUPPORTING BRACKET.

Application filed September 13, 1924. Serial 80. 737,556.

To all whom it may concern:

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Be it known that I, SEWARD J. DICK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clymer, in the county of Indiana and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Curtain and Shade Supporting Brackets, of Which the following is a specification.

The object of my said invention is the provision of curtain and shade supporting brackets possessed of practical advantages as hereinafter set forth.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in the improvement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification Figure 1 is a broken elevation showing my novel brackets in use.

Figure 2 is a top plan view showmg one of the brackets. and portions of poles carried thereby.

Figure 3 is a perspective of the other e., the left hand bracket in Figure 1. v

Figure 4 is a perspective of the right hand bracket-i. e., the bracket shown in Figure 2.

Figure 5 is a View showing in plan'the blank form which the left hand bracket is formed, it bein tion that, the lank for the right hand bracket is similar except that it has a notch in lieu of a circular aperture.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all -of the views of the drawing. i

I show in Figure 1 a window casing 1, a shade 2, and curtain supporting poles 3, the said oles being provided at their ends with angulhrly disposed flattened arms adapted to be arranged in slotted portions of my novel brackets as hereinafter set forth.

Each of my novel brackets is formed of a single'piece of sheet steel or other inate rial appropriate to its purpose, the sheet being stamped as shown in Figure 5, andbeing then manipulated so that each bracket comprises a body 4 adapted to rest in parallelism with the face ,of the casing 1 and against such face and having a loop 5 across its upper end and also having at the ends of the loop widely separated depending barbs 6. Manifestly the said 1oop5 is adapted to be arranged on the upper edge of the window casing 1-,and the barbs 6 are adapted to be embedded in said edge to strongly understood in this connec-- connect the bracket of itself to the casing and so that the Weight imposed on the bracket will tend to anchor the same in place. The body 4 of each bracket is provided with an intermediate portion 7 of reduced width, forming a shank and in addition to the body 4 with its shank 7 each bracket comprises forwardly reaching parallel arms 8 at opposite sides of the portion 7 and a forwardly reaching arm 9, the said arm 9 being carried by a body portion 4. at one side of the reduced portion 7, and the arm 9 of the left hand bracket being provided with a circular aperture 10 while the arm 9 of the right hand bracket is notched as designated by 11.

The forwardly reaching arms 8 of each bracket are slotted at 12 to receive the arms of the poles 3 in the manner illustrated 'in Figure 2, so that the poles 3 will be strongly engaged with and supported by the-brackets without the assistance of extraneous means.

The arms 9 of the brackets carry roller of the shade 2 in the ordinary well known manner.

It will be apparent from the fore oing that my novel brackets are susceptib e of ready application and adjustment without the employment of skilled labor and that they are adapted to carry both a shade and poles or rods 3; and it will be also understood that the elements 3 may when desired be in the form of double rods one for ourtains and the other for dra ery. It will also be appreciated that the arbs 6 of each bracket are widely separated and hence are adapted to prevent the brackets from swinging sidewise.

In addition to the advantages ascribed to my novel brackets it will be noted that the brackets are susceptible of being economically manufactured and that by reason of the disposition of their several portions they are adapted to sustain considerable weight.

I have specifically described the preferred embodiment of my invention in order to im part an exact understanding of said embodiment. I do not desire, howeverfto be understood as confining myself to the construction disclosed inasmuch as my inven;

tion is defined by mya pended claim with in the scope of which changes may be made without departure from my invention.

Having described my invention, what .I

claim and desire to. secure by Letters-Patent,

As a new article of manufacture, a bracket m 1,571,7ee

for a shade and pendent drapery compristieal edges of the reduced portion of the ing a body having a reduced intermediate body, and an arm reaching forwardly from imperforate portion and a laterally extendthe outer end of the lateral portion of the 10 ing portion below and at one side of said body and adapted to support a shade. intermediate reduced portion, pendent barbs In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

at the upper end of the body, slotted arms reaching forwardly from the opposite ver- SEWARD J. DICK. 

